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Clerks, bystander take down 7-Eleven shoplifters

SAN DIEGO -- Police say two 7-Eleven clerks and a customer took down a couple of shoplifters -- one of whom was armed with a gun.

The incident happened around 8:30 p.m. Thursday at a 7-Eleven in the 3300 block of Sandrock Road in Serra Mesa.

Police say a man and a woman were shoplifting in the store and two clerks followed them out into the parking lot and confronted them. A struggle ensued and a customer, Alfred Tudela, jumped in to help.

"Somebody said that he had a gun," Tudela said. "So I started reaching under there and I felt a metal object. And I took it away from him, but he was biting my fingers."